> A recent exchange I have had elsewhere with theologian Phil Hefner leads me> to suspect that the following words may *not* being used to mean the same> things in different professional communities (e.g., theology, history of> science, intellectual history, philosophy):>> theism> deism> pantheism> panentheism>> Interested parties are requested to send me, off-board, full bibliographic> references to articles/monographs/scholarly reference works containing> definitions, either explicit or implicit, of one or more of the terms listed> above.

I have found the following work invaluable in its discussion of the nature of,
and differences between, theism and deism.

Hooykaas also used the very useful term "semi-deism" to cover those who argue
that God must periodically intervene in nature, that such interventions are, by
their nature, inexplicable, and are evidenced as gaps in the natural order.
Sounds familiar?